For some players, we might as well consider it news when they’re not injured. In the NFL, it’s running back Fred Taylor and safety Troy Polamalu. For NBA fans, it used to be Grant Hill but now it’s Yao Ming.

In hockey, Marian Gaborik is high on the list, but New York Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro might be the new standard bearer for so-frequent-it’s-almost-funny injuries. Katie Strang and various other sources report that the often-hobbled netminder left tonight’s game against the Calgary Flames with what many believe is a groin injury.

(Some speculate that it might be a groin problem rather than his consistently wonky knees, but who knows?)

First off love your user name @crosbyhasgoborrhea second off as a die hard isles fan I’m 19 this may so my impressionable years were the millbury years and honestly I’m starting to feel deja vu Charles Wang hire a damn new gm preferably someone who doesn’t make Sarah Palin look like a genius you don’t trade a goalie who has given you consistently GOOD numbers all year and been such a leader and mentor to your “core star prospects” who leads em now snowy Doug weight who face it is done I’m never giving up on this team I have however given up on you Garth Snow